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System Properties Comparison Apache Pinot vs. Faircom DB vs. Infobright vs. Postgres-XL vs. PouchDB

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Name

Description

Realtime distributed OLAP datastore, designed to answer OLAP queries with low latency

Native high-speed multi-model DBMS for relational and key-value store data simultaneously accessible through SQL and NoSQL APIs.

High performant column-oriented DBMS for analytic workloads using MySQL or PostgreSQL as a frontend

Based on PostgreSQL enhanced with MPP and write-scale-out cluster features

JavaScript DBMS with an API inspired by CouchDB

Primary database model

Relational DBMS

Key-value store
Relational DBMS

Relational DBMS

Document store

Secondary database models

Document store
Spatial DBMS

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Score	0.38
Rank	#275	Overall
	#126	Relational DBMS

Score	0.29
Rank	#304	Overall
	#43	Key-value stores
	#136	Relational DBMS

Score	1.02
Rank	#192	Overall
	#90	Relational DBMS

Score	0.53
Rank	#254	Overall
	#117	Relational DBMS

Score	2.34
Rank	#112	Overall
	#21	Document stores

Website

pinot.apache.org

www.faircom.com/products/faircom-db

ignitetech.com/softwarelibrary/infobrightdb

www.postgres-xl.org

pouchdb.com

Technical documentation

docs.pinot.apache.org

docs.faircom.com/docs/en/UUID-7446ae34-a1a7-c843-c894-d5322e395184.html

www.postgres-xl.org/documentation

pouchdb.com/guides

Developer

Apache Software Foundation and contributors

FairCom Corporation

Ignite Technologies Inc.; formerly InfoBright Inc.

Apache Software Foundation

Initial release

2015

1979

2005

2014

since 2012, originally named StormDB

2012

Current release

1.0.0, September 2023

V12, November 2020

10 R1, October 2018

7.1.1, June 2019

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

Apache Version 2.0

commercial

Restricted, free version available

commercial

The open source (GPLv2) version did not support inserts/updates/deletes and was discontinued with July 2016

Open Source

Mozilla public license

Open Source

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

ANSI C, C++

JavaScript

Server operating systems

All OS with a Java JDK11 or higher

AIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
QNX
SCO
Solaris
VxWorks
Windows

easily portable to other OSs

Linux
Windows

Linux
macOS

server-less, requires a JavaScript environment (browser, Node.js)

Data scheme

yes

schema free, schema optional, schema required, partial schema,

yes

schema-free

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

yes

yes, ANSI SQL Types, JSON, typed binary structures

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

yes

XML type, but no XML query functionality

Secondary indexes

yes

Knowledge Grid Technology used instead

yes

via views

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-like query language

yes, ANSI SQL with proprietary extensions

yes

distributed, parallel query execution

APIs and other access methods

JDBC

ADO.NET
Direct SQL
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP/JSON API
RESTful MQTT/JSON API
RPC

ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC

ADO.NET
JDBC
native C library
ODBC
streaming API for large objects

HTTP REST

only for PouchDB Server
JavaScript API

Supported programming languages

Go
Java
Python

.Net
C
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js and browser)
PHP
Python
Visual Basic

.Net
C
C#
C++
D
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

.Net
C
C++
Delphi
Erlang
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Perl
PHP
Python
Tcl

JavaScript

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

.Net, JavaScript, C/C++

user defined functions

View functions in JavaScript

Triggers

yes

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

horizontal partitioning

File partitioning, horizontal partitioning, sharding

Customizable business rules for table partitioning

none

horizontal partitioning

Sharding

with a proxy-based framework, named couchdb-lounge

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

yes, configurable to be parallel or serial, synchronous or asynchronous, uni-directional or bi-directional, ACID-consistent or eventually consistent (with custom conflict resolution).

Source-replica replication

Multi-source replication

also with CouchDB databases
Source-replica replication

also with CouchDB databases

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Eventual Consistency
Immediate Consistency
Tunable consistency per server, database, table, and transaction

Immediate Consistency

Eventual Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

tunable from ACID to Eventually Consistent

ACID

MVCC

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

Yes, tunable from durable to delayed durability to in-memory

yes

by using IndexedDB, WebSQL or LevelDB as backend

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard with additional protections for files

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

exploiting MySQL or PostgreSQL frontend capabilities

fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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